Definition of "meiotic" [mei•ot•ic]

• Of or pertaining to meiosis (adjective)

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• "For example, although Mendel's law of segregation (M) (which states that in sexually reproducing organisms each of the two alternative forms (alleles) of a gene specifying a trait at a locus in a given organism has 0.5 probability of ending up in a gamete) is widely used in models in evolutionary biology, it has a number of exceptions, such as meiotic drive."
• "Since Lande’s model does not incorporate mechanisms that influence fixation such as meiotic drive and kin-founding, there is reason to believe that the overall fixation probability for human chromosome 2 may be higher than the base calculation for the deme."
• "That is what drove me to the semi-meiotic hypothesis (SMH) as the only conceivable way that a new species could appear in a single cytogenetic step."